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This volume was published in honor of Rocco De Nicola’s 65th birthday. The Festschrift volume contains 27 papers written by close collaborators and friends of Rocco De Nicola and was presented to Rocco on the 1st of July 2019 during a two-day symposium held in Lucca, Italy. The papers present many research ideas that have been influenced by Rocco's work. They testify his intellectual curiosity, versatility and tireless research activity, and provide an overview of further developments to come. The volume consists of six sections. The first one contains a laudation illustrating the distinguished career and the main scientific contributions by Rocco and a witness of working experiences with Rocco. The remaining five sections comprise scientific papers related to specific research interests of Rocco and are ordered according to his scientific evolution: Observational Semantics; Logics and Types; Coordination Models and Languages; Distributed Systems Modelling; Security.
Distributed systems employed in critical infrastructures must fulfill dependability, timeliness, and performance specifications. Since these systems most often operate in an unpredictable environment, their design and maintenance require quantitative evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic timed models. This need gave birth to an abundant literature devoted to formal modeling languages combined with analytical and simulative solution techniques The aim of the book is to provide an overview of techniques and methodologies dealing with such specific issues in the context of distributed systems and covering aspects such as performance evaluation, reliability/availability, energy efficienc...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2005 held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in October 2005. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks and a summary of 5 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal languages, computer science logics, program construction, real-time systems, concurrency and refinement, software security, quantitative logics, object-orientation and component systems, model-checking and algorithms, and applied logics and computing theory.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Trustworthly Global Computing, TGC 2010, held in Munich, Germany, in February 2010. The 17 revised full papers presented and the 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on types and processes; games and concurrent systems; certification of correctness; tools and languages; and probabilistic aspects.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2010, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in June 2010, as one of the federated conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2010. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including the application of coordination in wireless systems; multicore scheduling; sensor networks; event processing; data flow networks; and railway interlocking.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2005, held in Namur, Belgium in April 2005. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. Among the topics addressed are Web services, safe ambients, process calculus, abstract verification, role-based software, delegation modeling, distributed information flow, adaptive Web content provision, global computing, mobile agents, mobile computing, multithreaded code generation, shared data space coordination languages, automata specifications, time aware coordination, and service discovery.
Large-scale open distributed systems provide an infrastructure for assembling global applications on the basis of software and hardware components originating from multiple sources. Open systems rely on publicly available standards to permit heterogeneous components to interact. The Internet is the archetype of a large-scale open distributed system; standards such as HTTP, HTML, and XML, together with the widespread adoption of the Java language, are the cornerstones of many distributed systems. This book surveys security in large-scale open distributed systems by presenting several classic papers and a variety of carefully reviewed contributions giving the results of new research and development. Part I provides background requirements and deals with fundamental issues in trust, programming, and mobile computations in large-scale open distributed systems. Part II contains descriptions of general concepts, and Part III presents papers detailing implementations of security concepts.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2012, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2012, as one of the DisCoTec 2012 events. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including coordination of social collaboration processes, coordination of mobile systems in peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks, programming and reasoning about distributed and concurrent software, types, contracts, synchronization, coordination patterns, and families of distributed systems.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshopscollocated with the SEFM 2015 conference on Software Engineering andFormal Methods, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 25 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The satellite workshops provided a highly interactive and collaborative environment for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to discuss emerging areas of software engineering and formal methods.The four workshops were: ATSE 2015: The 6th Workshop on Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation; HOFM 2015: The 2nd Human-Oriented Formal Methods Workshop; MoKMaSD 2015: The 4th International Symposium on Modelling and Knowledge Management Applications: Systems and Domains; VERY*SCART 2015: The 1st International Workshop on the Art of Service Composition and Formal Verification for Self-* Systems.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2014, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2014. The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: compositional approaches; adaptation and evolution; application and experience; tools; scheduling, time and hybrid systems; other verification approaches and safety and liveness of composition. The volume also contains two invited talks, one full paper and one abstract.